📙#Fertility #projections are vital for anticipating demand for #maternity, #childcare & other services 🫄👨‍👦

The innovative #Bayesian model reported in this new journal article by Joanne Ellison, Ann Berrington, Eren Dodd, and Jonathan Forster, incorporates individual-level #UnderstandingSociety #data to generate plausible #forecasts by individual-level variables - including #educational #qualification - despite their absence in the #populationlevel data. Read more 👇👇

https://academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jrsssc/qlad095/7343209?login=true

Charles Micou & Timothy O'Leary discover that representational drift in #neuralactivity and physiological changes, observed over extended periods, suggests the continuous application of a #learningrule at the #cellular and #populationlevel. This phenomenon serves as a measurable signal to uncover system-level properties of biological #plasticity mechanisms, such as precision and effective #learningrates.

📔 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2023.102746

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